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Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-07-06
BLOOD POISON.

Three years ago l contracted blood
poison. Iapplied to physician at once
and his treatment came near killing me.
l employed an old physician and then
went to KY. then went to Hot Springs
and remained two months, but nothing
seemed TO cure me permanently, although
temporary relief was given me. My con-
dition grew desperate and | applied To a
noted quack, but | did not improve. |
then used preparation which was pres
scribed gratis" but it contained too
much alcohol and aggravated my suffer
ings. then placed myself under the
treatment of noted Nashville physician
and for time was benefited, but by fall
| returned home ruined man physically
and financially, with but little prospects
of ever getting well. My money being
exhausted, did not know what to do.
In May. 1885, my mother persuaded me
to get bottle of B. B. B. (made in At,
lanta) aud did so to crafty her, but to
my utter establishment had not finished
the first bottle before every ulcer had
been healed.
To the present time | have used five
bottles and have received more benefit
than from all the rest combined; and am
satisfied that B. B B. is the most won,
derful blood purifier ever before known,
and urge all afflicted young men to try
one single bottle and be convinced. |
can truly say think it the best medicine
in the world. T. T. HALLERToN
Macon, Ca, May 1. 1886.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1887-09-29
Take Care of the Cook Stove.
Nellie Wsley in Good housekeeping.

Nellie Wiley IN Good Housekeeping.
"Why is it that / burn out so many
sets of stove liningf" some one asks.
Let me tell you. Use little more care
than you have been using, watch and
see that a clinker is not allowed to
form Oh the Innings, and if one does
form, remove it carefully with the po-
ker. At night, the fire box should be
even full of coal after raking out all
the dead cinders and ashes in the
range never fill your stove with coal
above the top of the Innings. Never
use shaker when it is possible to
avoid it /; instead, use the poker freely
and you will have better fire and use
less coal. Shaking the fire banks it
down into solid mass and the air can
not circulate through. When the fire
from any cause becomes dull, do not
stir it over the top or put In wood, but
rake out the cinders and open the
drafts. AT night do not close the
drafts as soon as the coal for the night
is put Oh, but let it burn for short
time, or as one man expresses it, Gun
til you think the coal is warm all
through" There is then very little
danger of gas, even if the stove is a
poor one. The ashes should never &C
cumulate in the ash pan until they
--..~i. SisO .5-s>t.- Is tI.iS iIdppcus even
once, the CRATE will usually be burned
out. Always run the range so that you
can get all the heat needed without
having the top red hot, as this will
warp the covers and centers, and if a
little water should happen to fall on
the stove while so hot the top of the
range is very apt to crack. Keep the
stove well BACKED if the lids get COW
cred with grease turn them over and
let the top of the lid come next to the
fire until the grease is all burned off.
If the covers are red and the backing
does not adhere, let them get wet SO
that they will rust little and then
black them.
When buying a range buy one that
is moderately heavy and made of the
best quality of iron. All the joints of
Il heating stove or range should fit
we'll because if they do not, when the
range has been used short time you
will notice gas escaping and will not
he able to tell where it comes from.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1887-09-29
Tlre Galeduniarr.
Before Death.

DIV much would care for it, could know
lat when 1 am under the grass snow
'se raveled garment of lifes brief day
lded and quietly laid away;
Ne spirit let loose from mortal bars,
ID somewhere away among the starsf
w much do you think it would matter then
bat praise was lavished upon me when,
hatever might be its stint or store,
beither could help nor harm me morei
& midst Of my toll, they had but thought
I stretch finger, 1 would have caught
Adly such aid, to bear me through
& pc bitter duty had to do;
n when was done, had but heard
80 breath of applause, one cheering word,
~ cry of Courage! :" amid the strife
weighted for me with death or life
w would it have nerved my soul to strain
hrough the whirl of the coming surge again
bat use for the rope, if it be not flung
the swimmers grasp to the rock has clungf
bat help in a comrades bugle blast
+ zen the peril of Alpine heights is pasti
bat need that the squirting pean roll
ben the runner is safe beyond the goals
at worth is eulogy's blandest breath
- en- whispered in ears that are hushed in death
~ mol if you have but a word of cheer,
LAX il while am alive to heari
II Mdr0dret j. Preston
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1887-09-29
A Good Farm Thought.
Husbdndnlan.

1t is very common for farmers to
look about for some task that may be
executed in a rainy day. "The time
must not be wasted" they reason, and
they really believe it would be waste
of time to be idle, or to rest, when it
rains, provided that there is work to
be done under shelter. They do not
reason wisely. Farmers work in good
weather often beyond proper hours
that is to say, beyond safe limit of en-
durance. There are conditions that
require prolonged effort to bring work
up with the season, or to save what
might be lost without working over
time. Take, as an illustration, the
meadow grass cut and cured, night
coming on, rain threatened, loss i'm
pending. By working late the last
load may be secured, so it is good pol
icy to take the strain. But there must
be compensation. To balance each
hour of OverwOrk, a full hour, or more,
should be taken out of time that 9th
erwise might be used in labor. Bend
a sapling and it will fly back when re-
leased but keep it bent month, or Il
shape. So with hard working far
mer who takes too little time for rest
He is bent never to straighten. Worse
still, he loses elasticity of mind. He
becomes dull in thought, slave to la
Dor that can never bring enough profit
to compensate what he voluntarily re-
linqushes in manly vigor of body and
mind
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1887-09-29
THE NEWSPAPER GRINDsTONE
Blu Nys in NesO York World.


Grown-up men very often express
the wish that they might be boys
again. They wish that they could
once more go back to the time when
they used to battle in the mill-pond
and permit the yielding mud to squirt
up between their weather beaten toes
for half day at a time /; when a bath
like this always produced a healthy
glow on their skins-about twenty
minutes after they got home.
They yearn to go back half CEN
fury to the days when they could eat
any thing that grew or walked upon
the face of the earth, or flew in the sky
above or swan in the waters beneath,
and yet feel no remOrse. Some have
even said that they would be willing
to go back there and turn the grind
stone while a heavy and remOrseless
parent got up and rode ON it for an
hour at time in order that they might
once more know the sweet, complete
and Oblivious sleep of vigorous boy
hood.
10 thnsa who may pant to turn the
grlndstOne once more in order to win
the largest amount of fatigue in Civ
Ell period of time, let me introduce the
grindstone of an active newspaper,
whereOn various people seek to sharp
en- their own private axes, meantime
impressing ON the boy who is turning
it that they are doing it purely for his
good.
The number of opportunities that
daily paper has in twenty-fOur hours
for jumping Oh great wrong with
both feet, while the gentleman who
furnishes the information cOnceals him
self in cyclone cellar that opens with
a time-lock, is absolutely appalling.
Outsiders have openly accused New
Workers of lacking public spirit, and
yet it is cold and extremely bleak
day when from twenty to fifty men
cannot be found who are willing to
drop in and furnish information, pro-
vided their names are not mentioned,
which will shake the city from centre
to circumference and result in the viO-
lent death of the editor.
Then there is the anonymous man,
who writes ii big, drOpsical letter, in
which he courts investigation
another man. Let the gentleman who
yearns to be ii boy again and turn the
grindstOne for day or two read the
letters written to Il daily newspaper
by those who desire to make an open
confession of the errors and transgres-
siOns of some one else.
The coarse, revolving stuff that is
fed to an average waste paper basket
in twenty-four hours would fill the
average man with lOathing. Some
day the high-browed poet of the flu
ture will toss back his dark and fluent
hair, twang his Tyre few times and
write poem entitled "The Vail of
the Waste paper Basket" and it will
make Dante's "InfernO" look like a
lawn sOciable.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1887-09-29
Newspaper Swindled.
Burlington Free Press.

A Keene, N. H., despatch says: Gan
individual giving the name of G. F.
johnson has been victimizing the pro-
prietors of weekly newspapers in this
city and in Vermont. Some weeks
ago he contracted with local paper
here to publish business directory of
leading business firms, which was
afterward to be issued in pamphlet
form. He brought good recommended
tiOns from publishers in this state and
in Portland, Me-, and appeared to be
not only wide-awake-as he surely
was-but honest. Assisted by two
men who travel with him, he canvass
ed the city and secured a large number
of cards from leading business houses,
which were duly published in the local
paper, and afterward printed in folder
pamphlet form by the publishers and
enclosed in covers provided by him.
Before the publication, however,
johnson left town, as he said, to COM
plete similar arrangements with other
papers in Vermont, agreeing to send
the money as soon as his bill was re-
ceived, leaving his address as at the
Van Ness House, Burlington. The bill
was sent, and after some delay, he
had had hard luck aud would send IA
check us soon as he reached Boston,
since which time no word has been re-
ceived from him here.
just what have been his operations
in Vermont is not known here, except
that one paper there has exposed him,
and at least one has written here for
information regarding his transaction
in this CITY,"
This is the same G. F. johnson, who
also signed himself Daley, and who
victimized a number of Burlington
merchants.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1887-09-29
What To Do With Our Daughters.

We copy the following interesting
6cle from the North American Re-
w for September from the pen of E..
y ter:
tAll over Germany exist what are
+ ed 'Sparcassen' Saving banks
81 ich correspond, in a measure, to the
iOwment plan of the American as
Rnce companies. The best known
Die 'Wilhelmscasse,' named after the
|peror, who is its patron. At the
Ia of girl, the father and mother
|lre her (kanfen sic ein) in such a
Bse for as much as they are able to
tow every year on the future of
Fir new born baby girl. The amount
bald annually. The Case lays out
money in behalf of the insured, at
erest, chiefly in real estate. In this
the money accumulates, and at IL
per majority, the girl is the possess
Of a snug little capital. This will
Fe her to study any favored profess
b, go to some good conservatory, or
@rt in business and last, but not
st, buy her trOusseau, if she has a
lnce to follow wOmen's truest mis-
b! Now, why cannot well-to- do
Aerican women establish such way
providing for their less fortunate
ersf What blessed gift from a
mother to a poor little girl such an
*nrance would bel l truly believe
you'd give zeal and encouragement
lany true, poor parents, if by this
ll economy they could help to pro-
"a for their dear ones. 1t is better
b life insurance, for it takes away
sting of death > all may live and
by the fruit of their economy How
eh better a yearly outlay would be,
people in moderate circumstances,
% in costly toys and extravagant
SIS, by which children are brought
20 expectations"
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1887-09-29
Summers Poverty and Honesty.
The COs7laODOlita7l.


Mr.. Sumner always lived within his
income and never incurred debt that
he had not the means of paying at the
time it became due. Within his in
come he was first just, then generous
During his first term in the senate he
was dependent upon his pay as senator
and little copyright money for his
support, although during a portion of
income by lectures. In his latter days,
however, he was rendered somewhat
easier in circumstances 10y a small for
tune that came to him from the success
sive death of several relatives. For
much of his life he was a poor man in
straitened circumstances, but he would
never be obliged to any one for any
thing but Kindness. He would not al
low another % pay any expense that
he Incurred, not even hOrse-car fare.
In stumping during the presidential
election he would never allow the con-
gresham in whose district he spoke,
and who was to be benefited most by
his efforts, to pay even his railroad
fare. He was no gift taker he would
interchange gifts as well as kind offices
with others, but the balance of the OBJ
legation was never allowed to remain
on his side. His generosity to the SER
wants of the houses in which he lived
was proverbial. Sam Ward said that
he lived like pauper but gave like a
king. No one can wonder that the
servants even temporarily in his en-
ploy were attached to him when his
consideration for, as well as his gener-
Osity to them, is fully understood. But
with all he kept within his income,
barely. it may be, but still within. He
was scrupulously conscientious, and
never took doubtful dollar.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1887-09-29
Middle Names.

heard a long argument once which
lt to prove that every father who
not give his son a middle name
5 greatly in error. Said the long
bded speaker, at doesn't matter
but girls,-girls marry and take
Pther name, but every man, to
punt to anything, should have a
idle letter, and it's mean if his ia
r doesn't give him one. Think of
pes Brown running for congress.
Pa stand a forty per cent. better
|nce if his name happened to be
.nes X. Brown" After he had chad
say" and it did seem for a minute
! he had the right on his side, a lit
man in the corner rose for iuforma-
} with regard to Henry Clay, and
niel Webster, and Charles Sumner.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1887-09-29
Blame Where 1t Belongs.

a writer in the Home Department OF
he Christian Union, in Analysing the
r. So --i-;~l. nnherlie the chronic half
Ssvalidism among women, sensfGIE re :
PARKS, that while heredity partially
kplains the fact sit is about time for
, to stop churning up the bones OF
~ ancestors and look for a more mod
d. solution of human ills" The arti-
81 continues:
) Feminine education will one day be
a led upon to answer before the tri-
*Inal of public opinion, two great
urges that seriously affect the health
women. One is the building of
hin out of season. This results in
81 airment of physical vigor. The
Ter is the total absence of any recOg-
I'D and required apprenticeship in
ehnestic matters. Girls are not edu-
led to be women. Their place i'm
lure is ignored and their individual
disregarded. There is no syste-
Atic training given them in these &C
bites that must of necessity receive
<{hrge share of attention throughout
u, irrespective of station or career.
|S'e real meaning of true, actual wO-
lily existence is seldom, if ever,
.nght to the notice of eager school
}Is.
ID is taken so much as a matter of
arse that women will be able to per-
IN the miscellaneous business Uf
~ sehOld management that no effort
made to teach them their various
hes. Knowledge of this sort is sup
ed to come when occasion requires
as instinct prompts the bird to
ID it's nest Alright. If women ever
ssessed this instinct they have lost
There are but few homes where
81 best advantage is made of the re-
irces at the mistress's disposal. Ig-
fance reigns in the kitchen, and
fplexity in the parlor. The maid
bws next to nothing, and the mis-
IS unavailable things. Public Opin-
has not demanded that each shall
b woman first, whatever else beside,
led in all that pertains to house
health and happiness.
he situation is heart breaking.
omen of stern stuff master it in time,
u fit themselves, though sadly out
Season, for the noble and dignified
fessiOn of a matrOn. The weak
es go to the wall and lose their
alth. There is nothing so depress-
3, so utterly demOralizing, as a con-
mt sense of failure. Especially is
b true of domestic affairs, in which
IN the most witless are supposed to
BEL. To be forever doing and never
Omplishing results is a process that
bound to undermine physical health
peace of mind. "Happy 2" ex-
lined one poor soul, derisively.
Why, | haven't been happy since L
5 married I" This bald statement
hply meant that the duties of do
site life unrecOgnized and unappre-
ted before marriage, together with
strain and demands of maternity,
proved too much for undevelOped
in and Drawn. Unprepared wO-
u, not very strong as girls, are
amped by this food of new respOn-
lities. They sink quite naturally
gradually into chronic half-inva-
Ism, without happiness, without
. ga condition midway between in
lily and sin. OF course they are
ewhat to blame, and society is a
I'd deal to blame, while parents and
cheIs are inexcusably to blame.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1887-09-29

he added, you can have it as long as
you use it,
'All right said Frank, make me
that agreement in writing 1t was
done. Frank stationed his repOr tiers
at the ball, and the first report came
down at nine o'clock. Send that,
said Frank when it was done. Now
telegraph this and he commenced on
the first chapter of Genesis, and tele-
graphed more Bible into that Herald
Office that night than it had ever seen.
The parenthesis, however, had glow
ing account of the ball.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1887-09-29
The First Annual Exhibition
of the
Eastern VT. Road and TrOtting
Horse Breeders.


Stake No For Foals of 1885, Entrance, $500
Half mile heats, best twoin three to harness.
Stake No. 2-FOr Foas of ss4. Entrance, 500
Mile heats. best three in five to harness.
Stake No. 3IFor Foals 1888. Entrance, $1,000.
Mile heats, best three in five to harness.
In Stakes T. 2 and 3, entrance money to make
purse to be divided follows: so per cent. to first
third Entries to be made to 1. H Hall. Treasurer
Lyndon Centre, VT Entries to close September
Doth, at 10 o'clock, midnight Entrance money to
accompany nomination in all cases.
Cllss No. 4-Brood Mare and Colt at foot. Pre-
MUM $500 divided s12 g. S.
Glass No. 5-Year-old Geldings and Fillies. Pre-
MUM S25 divided s12, 90 and IS.
Glass No. 6-Two-year-old Geldings and Filies.
Premium s25; divided S12, 80 and IS.
Glass No. T-Three-year-o GeldiDgs and Fillies.
To be shown to harness Premium $25; divided
Sl2. 90 and S..
Class No. s-One-year-old Stations. Premium 500
divided $40, s6 and 81
Glass No. 9-Two- year-Old Stations. Premium
s25; divided $l2 90 and S..
Glass No. 10-Three-year-old Stations. Premium
$50; divided SIS 10 and IS.
Class No. 11-Roadsters, shown to road wagon.
Glass No. l2-Sucking Colts. Premium s15; di-
vided 81, IS and 50.
Entries free to Glasses No. 4, s. ST. 8, 9, 10, II
and - to be made to K. 81. Hoffman, Secretary,
Lyndon, Vt, by o'clock A. NJ, October 18th.
to all stock owned by members of the Association.
or the get of any Stallion owned by member OF
the Association. Membership fee - 90. Member
ship gives all rights of entry and free ticket to
all races. For Stalls address o. ii. MOssman, Bar
ton, vt. A judge from outside the counties will
award the premiums. Railroads will carry for half
fare. Admission 35 cents; Teams 20 cents.
w. S. BAILEY, President,
toc6 East Hardwick vt.
f. H. HOFFMAN, Sec. Lyndon vt.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1887-09-29

and Washington Irving, and John
Adams, not to mention the immortal
"George" or Honest Abe" or even
the present incumbent of the White
House, and to say nothing of Napoleon
Bonaparte. The conclusion of the
whole matter seems to be, after all,
that our names for good or bad are
what we make them.-[ Mrs. Gamwcll
in Good Housekeeping.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1887-09-29
RHEUMATISM AND CATARRH.
These enemies Ofheath and comfort succumb to
to the unfaing virtues of
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FOR
Rheumatism and Catarrh

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Shoulders.
CALAIS, Vt, September g. 1886.
DEAR DIR. PACKER Il cannot but feel grateful
to you for the relief and have experienced by
using your Rheumatic and Catarrh Remedy.
was troubled with rheumatism all through my
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labor but very little. had no appetite and was
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your medicine was restored to good health.
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SOUTH CABOT, VT, March g. 1885,
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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1887-09-29
Presentation of Account.

CTATE OF VERMONT, CALEDONIA DISTRICT, IS
y In Probate Court held at the Probate Office il
st. Johnsburv, in said District on the 18th day Of
September, A. D. 1887
David Cross, Executor of the last Will and
Testament, of Eunice D. Dickerman, late of Man
chester N. H., deceased, presents his administra-
ton account for examination and allowance, and
make application for decree of distribution and
partition of the estate of sal deceased.
WhereupOn it is ordered by said court that said
account and said application be referred to a
session thereof to be held at the Probate Office
in said ST. JOhnsbury, the LIST day of October,
A. ID. 1884, for hearing and decision thereon and it
is further ordered that notice hereof be given to all
persons interested, by publication of the same
three weeks successfully in the Caledonian. a
newspaper published at st. Johnsbury, previous
to said time appointed for hearing that they may
appear at said time and place, and show cause,
if any they may have, why said account should not
be allowed and such decree made.
By the Court, Attest,
1918 WALTER Z. SMITH Judge.